The "Achilles Heel" of global efforts to combat infectious diseases [8]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1503-1504

  Berkelman, Ruth ^a   Cassell, Gail ^b   Specter, Steven ^c   Hamburg, Margaret ^d   Klugman, Keith ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Nuclear Threat Initiative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INVESTMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALARIA; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33646437908     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504494     Document Type: Letter

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